"I can always tell where you're right and I'm wrong, there's an undermining kind of rumble."
-Dr. Root 1/31/05
Writes on the board: This statement is untrue.'
"See what I mean? 'I don't know?"
-Dr. Root 1/31/05
"We're in the key of...bass clef." -Dr. Root
"Key of bass clef?" -student
"Would you rather have it in treble?" -Dr. Root
3/21/05
"It's a French 6th." -Dr. Root
"Well, that's dumb." -student
"I don't know if it's dumb, but it's true." -Dr. Root
4/13/05
"If you don't get a kick out of what you do your doctorate in you better do something else."
-Dr. Root 4/13/05